The Master Plan (2009) Read Online Free

him."
    "No, and I'm afraid Casey doesn't know him either."
    "Come on, sweets. Casey is a big girl and a trained investigator. I'm sure she probably checked him out"
    "She did, but couldn't come up with anything farther back
than two years ago when he moved to Crescent Hills."
    "Is this one of the `who's' you want me to give you a little information on?"
    19"Yes.
    "No.
    "That's not an acceptable answer."
    Bruno laughed and shrugged. "That's what you always say
the first time I tell you no. Then comes the arguing, then the
pleading, and finally a suitable bribe. Let's fast-forward to
the last item."
    "You've already had the last item," Dana responded. "A
home-cooked dinner and two pieces of pie. That's it, buster."
    "Okay, Dana, but I'm going to need more than the guy's
name. Tony Hunter sounds like a name a movie studio makes
up for one of their actors. Get me his fingerprints and I'll run
him through the department's database and find out if he's a criminal. I assume you and Casey have already tried tracking
him by his date of birth and Social Security number."

    Dana nodded. "We came up with zilch, but he seems to
have plenty of money. She met him at the Crescent Hills
Country Club on the golf course"
    "Whoa! Wait a minute here," Bruno said. "How did Casey
get to play golf there?"
    "Bob asked her the same thing today. She said she had an
unexpected windfall and used it to join the country club."
    "So Casey is rich now?"
    "I don't think so. She's still working for me"
    "Honey, you have to have big bucks to get into that club."
    "Look, Bruno, I'm not sure how Casey got in and I don't
care. I'm just worried that this Hunter guy isn't what he appears to be. He could be one of those mob guys in the Witness Protection Program, which would explain why his
background begins and ends two years ago"
    "Which would make it impossible for me to find out anything, either. The feds would have wiped him out of the computer database when he got his new identity."
    "You went to school with that FBI guy in the Chicago
office. I was thinking you could bypass the usual channels
and ask him for help."
    "I've seen Barry once in ten years. We're not exactly buddies anymore. I think you'd better start from the beginning
and tell me why you and Casey were suspicious of this guy
to begin with."
    Dana sighed and sat back in her chair. "It all started about
three months ago. I knew that something was up with Casey
because she suddenly decided to let Marianne arrange a makeover for her. Bob got all excited and thought she was
ready to get fixed up with one of his single friends, but she
turned him down flat. She looks great with the new hairdo
and clothes."

    "Really. I haven't seen her or maybe I have and didn't
recognize her."
    "Anyway, a few weeks later, she told me about joining the
country club, but she didn't give me any real details about
how or why she did it. She really just wanted to talk about
meeting Tony Hunter."
    Bruno nodded and refilled his coffee cup with the insulated decanter still on the table. "So, she joined the country
club, met this guy on the golf course, and fell in love with
him. Sounds like every young girl's dream, except for you,
of course"
    Dana ignored the remark and continued with her story.
"Casey said that a few weeks into their relationship she
started picking up little things about Tony that seemed odd.
He paid for everything with cash and said he didn't believe
in credit cards or checking accounts. Tony claimed to have
an engineering degree and said he did freelance work for a
firm in Chicago, but when Casey tried to check on the company, she learned they had been out of business for years"
    "How did she get his Social Security number?"
    "She went to the bank with him one day to get something
out of his safety deposit box. He had to show two forms of
ID to the clerk and Casey got the number while the girl was
writing it down. She can read upside down, you know, and
she also has